Ralph & Kacoo’s
I know this is a chain, but it’s not too common around my parts so I wanted to go ahead and write about my experience. Here are the physical specs:
401 Central Expressway S.
Allen Texas
972-727-1614
I must admit I had to change my mindset once I got there, as I didn’t realize that this place was a “fine dining” type of place. In other words the same shit the other guys offer, they offer with more fancy display and more money on the tab. Down to the details.
The food was pretty good. I ordered a beer, and the “Taste of Louisiana” to start. The beer was of course Dos XX and even they couldn’t screw that up. The ToL included fried shrimp, fried calamari, and fried gator. This was not too bad. The gator seasoning was pretty plain, no flavor to it at all, but all around pretty good. I ordered a salad as well that was a typical greens salad, nothing special.
Our meals included the shrimp scampi for my wife, and I got the chicken breaux. This was not the best part of the experience. My food was very plain and served at room temperature. The meat was pretty good, but chicken is chicken even with a $16 price tag. Not impressed. My wife’s scampi was served on a bed of noodles and looked very tasty, but she almost couldn’t eat it. The scampi was so spicey even I couldn’t stomach very much of it, and I can pack the heat away. She picked at it for a bit, but neither of us ate very much of it.
We took a look at the dessert platter, but nothing looked worth a damn so we called it a night and went to cold stone.
As an overview, the service was funny. We had like 3 waiters all night. No one had any clue what anyone else was doing, but it felt good to just have someone want to help you no matter what. It was a cool atmosphere with nice looking things around the shop. The amount of food we got from start to finish was pretty dismal. I ate all of mine and left hungry. The appetizer was good if you looked past the bland gator. All in all I personally will never be back, but if your looking to treat yourself or your better half it was an experience. Just not one I require.
